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For 4,081 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 67% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 76
Highest review score: 100 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [50th Anniversary Edition Deluxe Version]
Lowest review score: 10 Songs From Black Mountain
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,645 out of 4081
  2. Mixed: 400 out of 4081
  3. Negative: 36 out of 4081
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Love Is Yours
    As you might expect from a band that once bordered on power pop, Love Is Yours strikes most powerfully when Mulitz and Baker explore faster, more jubilant sounds.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Night Fiction
    Night Fiction does feel like a fully realized reflection of its creator’s mercurial disposition.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Trophy
    Trophy far more often concerns adult themes, and it navigates these topics with a clever lyrical hand that few teens could muster.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Wolf's Law
    All but a few tracks could be touted as a single, though in the same breath, it is hard to pick a standout from them, their defining moments tied to a choice on their pedal board.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    New Material
    With their third LP, New Material, they dive into it headlong, getting closer to Munro’s stated goal than ever before.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 71 Critic Score
    Harvey Milk
    While this early work lacks the sheer violent width of the band’s more accomplished cousins The Melvins, its experimental energy is hard to miss.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Candidate Waltz
    At nine tracks in 33 minutes, Candidate Waltz hardly overstays its welcome, and it's hard to fault Johnson for keeping it punchy and direct.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 64 Critic Score
    There's No Leaving Now
    There's No Leaving Now settles too readily into a single slumberous mood. It's all pull and no push.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In Case We Die
    Delicate despite being epic. [Aug/Sep 2005, p.130]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Born Again In The USA
    Lacking Wilco's tender drama, Loose Fur proves its own beast, content to roam subtle vistas, noisy archipelagos and amber waves of feedback. [Apr/May 2006, p.113]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Gentle Grip
    While the album is successful at crafting smart and danceable music, it lacks the fervor that defined their 2018 EP. This isn’t to say there aren’t gripping moments of sonic intensity on Gentle Grip that more than satisfy the more frenetic yearnings of Distance Is a Mirror.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Trans-Continental Hustle
    It seems Gogol Bordello is still stubbornly clutching for the inventiveness of earlier records like Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike and Super Taranta! without truly progressing, leaving us with a Rick Rubin-adorned imitation of their visionary past work.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ready for Confetti
    Ready for Confetti creates that bridge between the romance of gone and the reality of knowing what one does well.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Better Day
    Downhome but polished, Parton and producer Kent Wells create an often pop-country gem that empowers as it punches country radio's cliches with a freshness that says "real country is more engaging than warmed over AC and AOR with fiddles on it."
    • 72 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Get Gone
    Despite a few major lulls, Get Gone, for the better part of its run time, is a sharp, unique, and enjoyable record brought to you by a band that has all the energy and musicianship required to ensure each listen is going to be a good time that gleans something new.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Love Is Love
    This latest song cycle reflects the maturing work of an act determinedly young at heart yet gathering their powers nonetheless to confront encroaching terrors.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Kidsticks
    Kidsticks feels genuinely special--it’s an exciting reboot and a tantalizing hint that new strategies may be on the horizon, never a bad thing when an artist has been on the job more than two decades.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    FIDLAR
    The album is filled with two-minute romps that systematically tout both their influences and their contemporaries.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Nothing Gold Can Stay
    The album is at its sweetest with love-laced tracks like 'Water Spider' and 'Summer Morning Rain,' but it truly shines when it tackles deeper issues.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Mixing Colours
    This is music that is nearly impossible to dislike and is a fair recommendation for almost anyone seeking tranquility or quiet music for contemplation. Still, we should expect more from the Eno brothers, who are both iconic musicians in their own right and have left their impression on both the mainstream and experimental worlds forever.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    American Utopia
    In other words, it’s a David Byrne album: cerebral, but with an irresistible beat; and exuberant, but in a way that is self-contained. And if America right now is something less than a utopia, Byrne is a force for positivity, exhorting us all to do better.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    100 Lovers
    In what very well could be a transitional album for an evolving band, Urata's achingly expressive voice is the unbreakable thread keeping these two somewhat disparate mini albums safely tethered.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Let Them Drink
    It's not that terribly accomplished, it's not terribly coherent, it's not very linear, mature, or even sober-sounding. But that's rock 'n' roll, innit? [#16, p.145]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Souls Alike
    Music that's radio-ready, but never boring or insipid. [Dec 2005, p.108]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Descended Like Vultures
    For all its efforts to dazzle, Rogue Wave's music rarely engages the emotions the way it ought to. [Dec 2005, p.124]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Light Chasers
    This interplay between extremes has always been Cloud Cult's strong suit; the snaking tempos and sudden rave-ups and ear-jarring bangs have been necessary to balance out the self-serious personal lyrics. Here, the band does well to incorporate tension and volume--you just wish for more of both.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Culture of Fear
    In the end, Culture of Fear is a good album, but it doesn't push any boundaries or claim any new ground.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 59 Critic Score
    Tucson: A Country Rock Opera
    The record is good as background noise, with a few tracks strong enough to stand alone. As a complete story, though, it doesn't exactly deliver.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Mala
    Like most Banhart albums, Mala is often easier to admire fondly than truly love, particularly when the maestro leans closest to his freak-folk roots.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jubilee
    Jubilee is their best album yet, and may very well be remembered as the most sincere release of 2013.
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